Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm (1) ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-Saʿādāt (2) ibn Karīm al-Mawṣilī (3) was one of the Ḥanafī jurists. He produced an extensive commentary on al-Qudūrī and served as chancery secretary to its ruler, Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ (4), before requesting to be relieved of that post. Learned and eloquent, he was also a poet, and among his verses—composed in the ṭawīl metre—are:
Let him be as passion wills him to be;
though he betray every pledge, I shall not betray.
Address him with all the softness you can,
that his unyielding heart might one day soften toward me.
Spread my longing to him and repeat my tale to him,
for tales indeed rekindle hidden feelings.
I would ransom with my very life those who have slipped from my sight (5),
yet their love within my heart will never fade.
On the day they departed, draw upon the lovers
swords whose slender blades are the very curve of eyelids.
Al-Majd al-Bahnasī (6) served as vizier to King al-Ashraf; afterward he was dismissed and fined. Upon his death he was buried in the tomb (7) he had built for himself at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn, where he designated his books as a waqf (charitable endowment) and provided for it generous, profitable revenues. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.
Jamāl al-Dawlah (8) Khalīl ibn Zuwēzān, head of the Palace of the Pilgrims, was intelligent and dignified. He gave abundant charity. He has a visitation site in the Sufi cemetery on the qiblah side and was buried in his own mausoleum near the Qalūs Mosque (9). May Allah Most High have mercy on him.
Al-Malik al-Amjad (10), founder of the Amjadiyyah Madrasa (11).
(1) Manuscripts A and B read “Ibrāhīm ibn Karam,” which is a corruption.
(2) In the work al-Tāj wa al-Ṭabaqāt it reads “inna abi al-Ghārāt.”
(3) It appears only in manuscript T.
(4) The entry on Lu’lu’ will be provided under the year 656 AH.
(5) Manuscript A reads “Khafiyya.”
(6) The biography of al-Majd al-Bahansī can be found in:
• Miraat al-Zaman (vol. 8, p. 444)
• Takmīl al-Mundhirī (vol. 3, p. 282)
• Dhayl al-Rawdatayn (p. 160)
• Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 13, p. 859)
In these sources he is named al-Ḥārith ibn Muhallab ibn Ḥasan al-Muhallabī.
(7) The biography appears in:
• Ad-Dāris (vol. 2, p. 927)
• Tarikh al-Ṣāliḥiyya (p. 953)
• Tanbīh al-Ṭālib (p. 981)
Duhmān (may Allah have mercy on him), in a marginal note to Tarikh al-Ṣāliḥiyya, marked the name as “unknown.”
(8) The biography of Jamāl al-Dawla is found in:
• Miraat al-Zaman (vol. 8, p. 445)
• Ad-Dāris (vol. 2, p. 247) — which reproduces Ibn Kathīr’s full text
See also the abridgement in Tanbīh al-Ṭālib (p. 195) and Munādamat al-Atlāl (p. 336).
(9) The Qālūs Mosque in al-Ḥaṣā Square.
(10) All primary sources list two separate entries, though they refer to the same individual, al-Malik al-Amjad Bahrām Shāh. His biography appears in:
• al-‘Alāq al-Khaṭīra (p. 252)
• Miraat al-Zaman (vol. 8, pp. 441–442)
• Wafayāt al-A’yān (vol. 2, p. 453)
• Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 22, p. 330)
• al-‘Ibar (vol. 5, p. 110)
• al-Wāfī bi al-Wafāyāt (vol. 10, pp. 304–307)
• Fawāt al-Wafāyāt (vol. 1, p. 226)
• Miraat al-Jinān (vol. 4, p. 65)
• al-Nujum al-Zāhira (vol. 6, p. 275)
• Shadharāt al-Dhahab (vol. 7, pp. 223–224)
• Tarwīḥ al-Qulūb (p. 49).
(11) It appears only in manuscript T.